[PATCH] pata_pcmcia: add EBSA110's PCMCIA slot support

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

Hi,

On Thursday, March 16, 2017 05:26:54 PM Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 06:50:43PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > +static struct ata_port_operations pcmcia_ebsa110_port_ops = {
> > +	.inherits		= &ata_sff_port_ops,
> > +	.sff_dev_select		= pmcmia_ebsa110_dev_select,
>                                   ^^^^^^
> > +	.sff_set_devctl         = pcmcia_ebsa110_set_devctl,
> > +	.sff_check_status	= pcmcia_ebsa110_check_status,
> > +	.sff_check_altstatus    = pcmcia_ebsa110_check_altstatus,
> > +	.sff_tf_load		= pcmcia_ebsa110_tf_load,
> > +	.sff_tf_read		= pcmcia_ebsa110_tf_read,
> > +	.sff_exec_command	= pcmcia_ebsa110_exec_command,
> > +	.sff_data_xfer		= ata_sff_data_xfer_noirq,
> > +	.softreset		= pata_pcmcia_ebsa110_softreset,
> > +	.cable_detect		= ata_cable_40wire,
> > +	.set_mode		= pcmcia_set_mode,
> > +};
> 
> Heh, that's a fat driver for a sff device.  I suppose this is mostly
> copied from the matching ide driver but it'd be nice to explain why it
> needs duplicate most standard functions.  Is it because PCMCIA
> assigned address doesn't fall under the usual read/io boundary on the
> arch?

There is no support for this device in the upstream ide driver but
Russell has a hacky patch to make it work by redefining inb()/outb()
operations globally for the whole ide subsystem, please see:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg567454.html

and

arch/arm/mach-ebsa110/io.c

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics